Target Your Own Success

Dear lovely people,

In this game of life, you have to target your own success. Joel Osteen says “When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.” Notice here that you can’t be focusing on being a blessing if you are not thinking of others. It’s only in blessing others that you receive blessings. What is more satisfying than just surrendering to the will of God?

There are a number of things you have to target as you work to become successful in life. That is why I agree with Jack Canfield when he says “Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.”

Many are those who focus on the pain they go through each day. I keep saying that if you have not tasted pain, you will never know the real taste of success. It is actually in the middle of pain that success is crafted out and as a matter of fact, Aristotle Onassis puts it intelligently when he says “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”

At such dark moments, Denis Waitley insists “Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.”

Let your within speak to you. Even if success was a question of simply using your eyes to see it, I will still join Mark Twain to say that “You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

God brought you into this beautiful world not do dwell on pain but rather to be refined by pain so you become a better person just as gold is refined by fire in a furnace. You have a destiny and like Ralph Marston says “Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.”